Despite early attempts to use Ethernet in the industrial context, only recently has it attracted
a lot of attention as a support for industrial communication. A number of vendors are offering …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

During the last decades, Ethernet progressively became the most widely used local area
networking (LAN) technology. Apart from LAN installations, Ethernet became also attractive …

Fieldbus systems have been successfully introduced into industrial automation. Nowadays,
a large community is inventing the usage of Ethernet-based local communication systems in …

Ethernet was not originally developed to meet the requirements of real-time industrial
automation systems and it was commonly considered unsuited for applications at the field …

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) technology allows users to remotely access their enterprise
networks through a public network such as Internet. To accomplish secure remote accesses …

Through several giant evolutionary steps, Ethernet has become an almost ubiquitous
technology for communication. Being versatile enough to be employed in new and various …

During the past few years there has been an dramatic upsurge in research and
development, implementations of new technologies, and deployments of actual solutions …

Cloud manufacturing yields insights of manufacturing services over cyberspace based on
the integration of advanced manufacturing with cloud computing. However, the different …

This paper investigates the potential of the emerging Ethernet audio video bridging (AVB) in
industrial networks. An analytical model of AVB is described, and AVB's priority queuing …